AI Quality Mark: Elevate Your School’s AI Integration
By embedding AI effectively and responsibly within your educational framework, you ensure that students and staff are well-equipped for a rapidly evolving technological landscape.
Key Aspects of the AI Quality Mark
Achieving the AI Quality Mark
The awards are categorised as Progress, Bronze, Silver, and Gold, based on the overall score.
Why Should Schools Go Through the Quality Mark?
By engaging with our framework, you will be encouraged to consider how AI affects all areas of school life through the self assessment submission. It allows you to critically evaluate where your school is using AI and will give you the necessary tools to plan your strategy moving forwards. Achieving the AI Quality Mark demonstrates to your staff, students, governors and community that you are dedicated to using AI responsibly and ethically across all areas of school life.
Our Process
Embedding AI into your organisation is a journey and we are here to support you every step of the way.
Initial Meeting
At the Good Future Foundation, we believe that this Quality Mark should add value to what you are doing in schools. Therefore, we ensure that we meet with every school who shows an interest in submitting for the Quality Mark before they even start!
Self-Assessment
After having a meeting with a member of our team, you will be sent the Framework for our AI Quality Mark. You are then able to self-assess your organisation against this criteria to give yourself a benchmark. We encourage everyone to do this, even if you feel you might not be at the place you would like to be as it gives you a starting point on your AI journey. There is no time limit on when you go through the Quality Mark process and you can submit as many times as you would like!
Review and Feedback
This self-assessment process is moderated by the Good Future Foundation to ensure consistency and quality. Once you submit your self assessment and evidence, it will be reviewed by one of our assessors. They will then book a follow-up meeting with you to go through the feedback and suggest ways you can move forward to the next stage of your journey.
Recognition for receiving the AI Quality Mark
Schools Leading
the Way in AI Education
Meet the pioneering schools and trusts transforming education through responsible AI integration. From achieving quality standards to implementing innovative practices, these institutions are setting new benchmarks in how AI can enhance teaching and learning.
For schools just starting out in AI, the AI Quality Mark is an excellent guide. It demystifies the process of incorporating AI into education, offering clear, actionable steps. The self-assessment tools and support from the Good Future Foundation gave us the confidence to move forward, ensuring that AI benefits both staff and students in meaningful ways.”
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“The Good Future Foundation’s AI Quality Mark process has been an invaluable experience for our school. Achieving the Bronze award provided us with a clear and structured framework to assess our current AI integration and identify areas for growth. The process was well-organized and encouraged meaningful reflection on how AI can enhance teaching, learning, and operational efficiency. The structured self-assessment and external moderation gave us confidence that we are on the right track while also helping us pinpoint specific strategies for improvement.
Beyond the accreditation itself, the Quality Mark has given us a solid benchmark to guide our future AI initiatives. The insights gained through the assessment have informed our strategic planning and policy development, ensuring that AI is embedded in a way that is both responsible and effective. We now have a clear roadmap for expanding our use of AI across the curriculum and operational aspects of the school, and we look forward to continuing this journey with the support of the Good Future Foundation.”
“Completing the AI Quality Mark has been an invaluable experience for our Trust. It provided a structured framework that allowed us to clearly identify our strengths in AI integration while also highlighting the next steps we need to take. The logical progression through the key aspects of leadership, curriculum, and professional development helped us plan effectively.
For schools just starting out in AI, the AI Quality Mark is an excellent guide. It demystifies the process of incorporating AI into education, offering clear, actionable steps. The self-assessment tools and support from the Good Future Foundation gave us the confidence to move forward, ensuring that AI benefits both staff and students in meaningful ways.”
Multi-academy Trusts or Schools that have attained the AI Quality Mark
Frequently Asked Questions
Following two extensive pieces of research conducted by Goodnotes on Generative AI in Schools (October 2023) and The Social and Emotional Impact of AI in Schools (September 2024), Good Future Foundation set out to explore documented findings in even more depth.
We achieved this through our partnerships with the likes of the Institute of Global Learning, STEM Learning, Women In AI, The Society of Heads, UTCAI, COBIS and Merrick-Ed. The AI Quality Mark was drawn up with senior leaders in schools, such as Dr Andy Kemp of the National Mathematics and Science College and Laura Knight, Founder of Sapio. Following a review from machine learning specialists at Goodnotes, and the Foundation's very own Student Council, and a pilot with Woodland Academy Trust, the AI Quality Mark went live in September 2024.
There are no experts concerning AI in education. This is a new, fast-paced and rapidly evolving field, with fresh and inspiring research being published every week, if not every day. At the same time products are being launched, technological capabilities increase and application of use takes on a wealth of different guises, with implications for senior leadership, safeguarding, compliance, parent communication and everything in between.
We are committed learners in this space. Our partners are driven and determined professionals eager to ensure that we make a sustainable and positive impact with the schools connected to us. We encourage you to be a part of the journey.
The AI Quality Mark is a self-assessment against a framework. Once you have had a meeting with us and you are happy that going through the process will add value to your organisation, then you can evaluate where you feel you fit against each area of the framework. Each level will give you a set number of points and your total score will determine which level of award you achieve.
When you are self assessing against the criteria, you will notice there are five levels for each area of the framework. Each level will give you a score which contributes to your overall total and the level of achievement within the AI Quality Mark.
There is no limit to the number times you can submit to be assessed. We highly recommend submitting early on in your journey as it gives you a benchmark. The framework is set out so that it guides you on a journey to embedding AI into your school in a responsible and ethical way and by submitting early on, you have a clear pathway ahead.
There are no set times in the year that we accept submissions. You can submit at any time that is convenient for you.
We do not want to add to any teacher’s workload so we are very flexible on the evidence that is submitted for the AI Quality Mark. Some examples of evidence that we accept are plans, teacher testimonials, presentation decks, notes/minutes from meetings etc.
When you receive the framework from us, you will also receive a link to a submission form. On the form, you are able to select the levels you feel your school is working at and attach any evidence for support. The form will save your progress for 15 days if you use the same browser (not in Incognito/Private mode) so that you can complete it at your own pace.
Once you submit your self assessment and evidence, it will be sent to an assessor who will evaluate your submission. They will complete an assessment form with detailed feedback. Once they have done this, a meeting will be organised with the assessor and organisation to discuss and share their feedback and support you on the next steps of your AI journey.
We would still encourage you to complete the self assessment as this gives you a benchmark to understand the next steps in your AI journey.
Once you submit your self assessment and it is sent to our assessor, we aim to get the feedback to you in 2 - 3 weeks.
Any school can apply to go through the AI Quality Mark. We ask that if you are an independent school that you support your local schools and community with developing their use of AI.
We will send the framework to you after the initial meeting which can act as a guide for your AI implementation. As part of the Good Future Foundation, we offer professional development workshops, free to schools, regionally to support as many people as possible. We also have the Teacher Community Platform, which is a fantastic support to those going through the AI Quality Mark. Lots of teachers who have gone through the AI Quality Mark share resources from their schools and best practice with others. It is also a great place to ask any questions and get answers from a range of school leaders, teachers and the Good Future Foundation team.
This is a personal choice, we do not mind if you would like to submit as a whole Trust or as individual schools. We have had schools and Trusts submit their self assessments in either way but what is important is that it is valuable to you.
We accept submissions from schools globally and already have schools around the world who have obtained the AI Quality Mark.
There are no consequences for stopping the process at any point. We want this to be a valuable and supportive process and if it isn’t right for your school or isn’t the right time, we will still be here when you are ready!
There is lots of value in achieving the Progress award as it shows that you are approaching your AI journey with consideration, building a strategy that includes managing data responsibly and preparing staff and students for the future. It gives you a benchmark to work from and a pathway to continue to build your strategy moving forwards. It also demonstrates to your community that you are committed to using AI responsibly and ethically within your organisation.π
Interested in the AI Quality Mark?
Upon submission, you will receive an invitation for a meeting to discuss how to apply for the AI Quality Mark, including the framework for the self-assessment and evidence submission.